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Harmon's \u003cem\u003eSome Bore Gifts\u003c\/em\u003e is an eclectic collection of stories spanning the traditional to the satirical, with a kaleidoscope of viewpoints and characters that includes tree cutters, department store pianists, museum guides, physicians, florists, actresses, bank managers, junk salesmen, personal trainers, and English professors. Harmon is as spellbinding in his depiction of the disenfranchised as of the socially poised, with vivid scenes of both the quotidian and the aberrant and startling. This captivating book challenges and entertains from start to finish.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eSOME BORE GIFTS: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.G. Harmon is a writer of the first order. 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Wolfe, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Confessions of X\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn these stories, Harmon takes you-lyrically, sometimes brusquely, always with good humor-through a gallery of lives. Some full and wise, others shallow and self-concerned, still others stunted or misunderstood-a stunning human spectrum. I laughed out loud, flipped pages in worry, even felt a knife slice through my palm. But most visceral-and this is Harmon's gift-I felt myself disappear in moments of true, transcendent beauty.\u003cbr\u003e - Samuel Thomas Martin, author of \u003cem\u003eA Blessed Snarl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.G. Harmon's new collection of stories, \u003cem\u003eSome Bore Gifts, \u003c\/em\u003e is stunningly diverse, displaying a vast range of characters and the skill to draw them that enchants his reader. From the glimpse of a migrant worker as he begins his story, the impression he left upon the listener was that of a tune hummed from a porch step, during the long liquid hours of the first, floating dusk, to the voice of a wounded piano tuner who leans into the memory, his gaze fastened to what he must see, Harmon creates a span of characters-an aging movie star, a college English professor-and falls into none of the possible and dangerous pitfalls. Readers are, indeed, invited to listen on the front porch. Their reward is seeing the redemptive moment of understanding that Harmon's characters discover.\u003cbr\u003e - Margaret-Love Denman, author of \u003cem\u003eDaily, Before Your Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.G. Harmon\u003c\/b\u003e's fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in \u003cem\u003eTriquarterly, the Antioch Review, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eShenandoah, the Bellingham Review, St. Katherine Review, Image, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCommonweal, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eamong others. His fiction won the 2001 Peter Taylor Prize (\u003cem\u003eA House All Stilled, \u003c\/em\u003e University of Tennessee Press, 2002) and was the runner-up for the 2007 William Faulkner Prize for the Novel. His academic work, \u003cem\u003eEternal Bonds, True Contracts: Law and Nature in Shakespeare's Problem Plays\u003c\/em\u003e was published by SUNY Press. He was a 2003 Walter Dakin fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He grew up on horse-and-cattle farms in Mississippi and Tennessee. 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Contracts, bonds, sureties, wills-all ensure a changed relationship between parties, and in Shakespeare the terms are nearly always reserved for use in the contexts of marriage and fellowship. Harmon explores the theory and practice of contractual obligations in Renaissance England, especially those involving marriage and property, in order to identify contractual elements and their formation, execution, and breach in the plays. Using both legal and literary resources, Harmon reveals the larger significance of these contractual concepts by illustrating how Shakespeare develops them both dramatically and thematically. 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